Margaret Leng Tan performs the west coast Premiere special arrangement of The Beatles song Eleanor Rigby (arranged by Toby Twining) at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1999 at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco.

Margaret Leng Tan, toy piano


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Artist/Composer: John Lennon/Paul McCartney, Toby Twining & Margaret Leng Tan
Date: 1999-03-26 00:00:00
Source: Other Minds
Label / Recorded by: Other Minds
Keywords: Avant-garde; Rock & Roll; 20th Century Classical; Toy Piano

Creative Commons license: Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial

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Reviewer: cliffliddy@hotmail.com - - July 12, 2011
Subject: Eleanor Rigby
It sounds like a toy piano its not very entertaining in any way. It's pretty bad when you can hear the real thing and enjoy it for what it is a great song

Reviewer: indigorec - - October 9, 2007
Subject: How time flys...
Margaret Leng's next investment should be a toy metronome.

Reviewer: zaphodchak - - September 21, 2006
Subject: Haunting
The arrangement is odd and confusing in some places, but it seems deliberately done, even though it doesn't sound like it. This rendition is absolutely haunting, capturing much of the spirit of the original. Definitely worth a listen even if it isn't your thing.

Reviewer: NoyoWharfRat - - May 31, 2006
Subject: Elenor Rigby/toy piano
I betcha' Lennon would've liked it.

Reviewer: DEADBUCK - - May 25, 2006
Subject: toy piano...
friggin right it's not just a toy.....oh my god somebody take it away before one of the boys hear it! Oh no seriously...this is an amazingly (adjective here) piece of music interpretation...get me my 12ga. and the applause at the end...how did they get so many people there to hear this? ok got to go now.....before the chuckie doll gets up and comes after me..

Reviewer: enwilson - - April 29, 2005
Subject: Magic
It just goes to show you, it's not a TOY piano if you know how to play it.